March = Curate our april contemporary art home page show. Post your selections!

[Jesse]

It's that time.  Time to start developing the next home page show.  Ceramics and 3-d art are well in my view screen, but I'd like to do a contemporary art show first.  artdc.org contemporary picks or something like that.  No limitation by medium.  This will be a contemporary art show. 

The theme is: artdc.org contemporary art: reawakening

Reawakening in the sense of a new beginning of the art it self, the process, or more literal as the season of spring. 
It's acceptable to post your thoughts about the meaning of contemporary art and the relationship of particular works with reawakening. 

Let's search for impact and interesting works, this isn't just about color, let's look for emotions.  Let's search for interesting surfaces and more.  Let's talk about it and see what we develop.  Remember, it's paramount that these images work together to create  a cohesive show.

If this is your first time posting to help curate a show please read the instructions on how to reply here:
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?topic=8046.0 
All the requested info must be included for your selections to be considered.  Thanks so much!

Here are some images that I'd like to show, what comes to mind when you look at these?


antoinette
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-28
I'm a fan of the bird based images, maybe it's a popular icon to use in contemporary art, but I like it.  It expresses a freedom, either having it, or wanting it.  Antoinette tends to use birds on a wire which to me contradicts the sense of freedom.  Stuck, not knowing where to go, wanting to fly, but looking for somewhere safe to land.


theartmonkey
Fight or Plight
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1327
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-566
Love it.  It says what it is.  Great insects.  I like to stare at this series a lot.  I wouldn't mind having one of these works on my wall...


fotoobscura
hands
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=649
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3519
Nice solid abstract that I've stared at a long time.  The photo of it makes me want to see it in person.  A fascination with rothko, but dark.


clayfetish
Imperfect #8
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=331
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2009
The imperfect series is wonderful. It's very difficult to pick which one I like the best.  Great texture, energy, I can see the pain the characters are feeling, or maybe that's my projection looking at my own faults.  Maybe they are happy in their faults, and the torment is in my eye.


Mjbest
Boy Your Lovin Is All I Think About
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2111
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3955
This series is special.  It fits my main requirement for art.  I can keep looking at it, and each time, I see more.  I felt that way with his work in the U st show.  I wish I got to see more of it.  There's something wonderful about the form, and texture on raw canvas.  I need to spend more time with this work.  An alternative image is this one: http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3952 whcih we hung at the U st. show.  It looks like building tops seen from a birds eye which I think makes it fit nicely thematically with Antoinette's work even though it's visually very different.


Lazulipi
Changes
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2206
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4328
I've got to think about this one more.  A painting with a statement.  I'd like to see the series.  What changes are we discussing here?  None the less, I'm a scientist, so I connect with an artist that uses math in their art.  Maybe that's what I like about art that obsesses about a concept. 


rclareschreibman
angel
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2249
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4730
Wings.  Back to the bird theme in a very different context.  Flight.  Escape...
There are things that I would do differently about the image if I was shooting it. I like the collage appearance with x-ray like wings, but something about the skirt disturbs me.  Maybe a nude figure...  Or something slightly different with the composition.  I'm not sure if this is the image to include with the show, but it's pushing towards a direction..  Angst maybe?  Possibly a begining for a theme.  Could we do a show on angst of a contemporary artist, with out pushing things into what would be to easy,  a figure show?

This is just a starting point.  Something to look at and think about what's next.  What's going to work along this line.  These images don't all work together in the context here, but possibly with more images, or maybe just less.  What is contemporary art, and what do we have in our on-line gallery to show.   This could be a very interesting project to look at further.

[Jesse]

Thoughts?

[lexi]

Let's see if I can make this work...

I like this:
christaki
Jack's Boat House


http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1370
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-676

Now to look for more.


Edit: fixed link

[Jesse]

Nice colors, that's one thing I suggested.  It does make me think of spring, but re-birth, re-awakening... or contemporary art?  It really makes me think more of photo journalism.  Not that that's a bad thing.  There are some fine examples of realism out there. 

Maybe we should fall back on some definitions and really discuss what contemporary art is.  There's a definition here: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-cntmpryart.html

I like this section, "contemporary art the art of the late 20th cent. and early 21st cent., both an outgrowth and a rejection of modern art . As the force and vigor of abstract expressionism diminished, new artistic movements and styles arose during the 1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting, sculpture, and other media."

Styles and artists they mention, Dada -like styles employed in the early 1960s and thereafter by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns had widespread influence, as did the styles of many other artists. The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art , characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts as inAndy Warhol, Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, multimedia components of happenings, minimalism.   I sort of paraphrased that, they do include hyper realism, which strikes me as interesting.

I think many people really think of contemporary meaning what's happening now, but what does it really mean, and how does this effect a selection of work when we call it artdc.org contemporary art, then put the focus on re-awakening..

What do you think?

[serendipity]

Chocolate Orchid - part of the seratonin collection - would this be okay?  Sorry to be out of touch

[Jesse]

Neat image.  Is it in the gallery?  Who's is it.  The general thing has been, we can't suggest our own images, and the show has to be curated from the work in the on-line gallery of artdc.org...

[Jesse]

I would like to open the theme up to more current art that relates to the images in the first topic.  This work calls out to me.  I'll post more later.  If there's less than enough interest, I'll be happy to curate this show myself:


michaeljanis
Trying to Understand
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1346
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4249




scenicartisan
Blue Plate Glass
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=54
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5869
Maybe I take the subject a little to literally, but I've always thought of the image of a light bulb to relate to an idea.  Or one of the ultimate ideas that brought us out of the cold dark caves of history and into the modern world.  With out the real useful study of electricity would we have made the jump from light bulb to vacuum tube to transistor to IC, and the very server that this web page exists on?  I think that like the popular use of birds in our generation of contemporary art, the light bulb should be there as a very important symbol.. 
Alternatively we could use this image: http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5746  but I like the simplicity of the blue plate glass.




sondranarkin
Orange Tide (1-3)
sondranarkin
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1193
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=652
More bright color fields.  A nice contrast to the dark color field I picked above in the first post of this thread.

Alternatively I like this image a lot:

sondranarkin
Prophesy Machine
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=652
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1191




1 of 3   
grrlyj
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2083
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4431
Images of spring (to me) birds and the female figure.  They bring forth in my mind the ideas of hope and desire.  The colors work nicely too!

[Jesse]

The colors are super delicate in this image!

photokrush
Juniper Flats Shrine
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=553
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5393


As I look back at grrlyj's image in the post above, I'm attracted to this one also.  Same reason.  The attraction to birds.  I think between the two images for this show it would have to be an either or situation, but I wanted to make sure that you all had a chance to see them both in context with the other images.

grrlyj
I am Because we Are
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2083
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3963

Black and white photographs contrast nicely with bright colors.  A nice nude / figure study works well with a spring or re-awakening theme.  There you are, exposed, no bull shit, that's who she is.  We should include another figure study or 2..

virgilio
Mining Camp
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1404
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3833

Neat work.  I'd like to see sharper photographs of it.  The red background is kinda neat, but I find my self looking at that sometimes more than the image.  I  love concrete and I think it's a very interesting material that needs more exposure.

Kerri
untitled
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4929
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2026

[Jesse]

haikstudio.com
untitled
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1081
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5602
One of haikstudio.com's images:   http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5604 was in our photo show, but I see that as n reason for preventing us from using another for this show.  I think the colors work nicely with the other possible suggested images in this exhibit.  Let's search for more images.  Think colors, yet don't be afraid of black and white!



Uncovered Perceptions
mdelamen
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1018
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-701
Again with the saturated bright colors and contemporary feel.  I like this image a lot.


steevo
Death Angels
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2173
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4188


sthanks
Nude Back
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1802
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3716
I'm starting to lean away from the idea of re-awakening here, and more towards what's filling in the blanks in the show above.  I really think that it's ok to have work that contrasts with the subject theme.  The contrast can be a connection, as long as there's something holding it together, and it's not in a completely different direction.  Some of my thoughts behind including a nude are a few posts above...

More to come...

[Jesse]

Maybe I'm off on another tangent with figure studies, but I love this image too:

antoinette
untitled
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-30



Also these.  The net doesn't do them justice.  Great texture of scratched images.  I like them a lot.  One  or 2 of these were in a show at the Heliport gallery.  Very cool work.  I'd like to see more of their stuff...  all that said, if it doesn't show as well on the net, this might not be the right venue for this image.  Still I figured I'd post it to see how it looks with the group.  A good example of how excellent documentation "could" really help get an image into the show.  If I was a painter I'd have 10 - 20 images of each work.  Detail shots from the font and side, really giving you an idea of depth and texture.  Right now with this image it's really tough to see what's going on...
marydott
Reflections II
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1845
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2402


I love the colors:

Kanchan Balse
Intersection
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1851
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2417





SueHolland
Wintry Tree--Composition II
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1883
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2530
Ha.  Did I say re-awakening?  Contemporary art?  Wintry Trees? Maybe instead we should consider a more spring like work by this artist?
But Really, I like the wintery image from it's technique and composition.  Again, the age old battle, content vs execution.  Who said it had to be spring.  Why fight myself over this image?  Well fitting the color theme of the images above, I like the work "garden of my soul"  but I'm still stuck on the tree composition!!

SueHolland
"Garden of My Soul"
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1883
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2529

[Jesse]

More possible images:


Elena V. Best
Metal & Lace
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1466
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1327


lexi
All of my friends have addictions
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2020
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4004


From The Edge of Urban Time Series
nicolaarts
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1902
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3779
Love this image!  Very powerful!

[theartmonkey]

I really like the 2 sue holland pieces and the kanchan balse piece. I think they take a theme that is generally more traditional (landscape, streetscape) and make them contemporary.

[Jesse]

I'm glad that you see that too.  Very nice work.  I'm digging for more.  As usual, the goal is to find a lot of work, and then narrow it down...

Here's another:

Clay mural 2'x5'
leila
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1459
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5402


http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/11084/normal_cs39.jpg
Poppies, 60 x 36 x 1.5
ansonholzer
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1084
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1982
hm.. I removed this one, since emails from this member were bouncing back.




Peony No 3
apres-image
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1240
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4571

[rrebold]

Free Association
Ellyn Weiss
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1185
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1405

Like the colors, natural shapes, implied peace sign and optimism.




National Panda
Sesow
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=110
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-808

Invokes thought about our situation with China; fueling its sweatshop economy with American dollars.  It could bite us in the ..




Dream of a Perfect Garage
Plark

http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=97
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-126

Things are alright in this guy's life, you just have to overlook a few things.




Attack
Kidkovdrop
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=914
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3951

Things come out in the Spring!  Having lived in Hawaii; it also seems like the perfect anti-tourism poster.





L' Aubawd
Kidkovdrop
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=914
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3274

Dating can be awkward; this captures it with humor and beauty.






Freedom in Orange
Magaly Garza
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1383
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3653

Love the colors, positive visceral reaction to them; invokes sunshine and daydreaming, maybe freedom.

[Jesse]

I love national panda and freedom in orange! That's just so damn wonderful! 
Thanks for pointing that out!  I don't know how I missed it!

[angelakleis]

Where are the ones that I had suggested before?

[Jesse]

That was the preliminary discussion in the Patron's Board.      Gotta grab them and all the appropriate links..

[Jesse]

So far here are the pics.  Last chance to dance.  I post the complete list  if anyone has any other additions..



antoinette
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-28


theartmonkey
Fight or Plight
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1327
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-566


fotoobscura
hands
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=649
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3519


clayfetish
Imperfect #8
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=331
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2009


Mjbest
Boy Your Lovin Is All I Think About
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2111
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3955
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3952


Lazulipi
Changes
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2206
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4328 


rclareschreibman
angel
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2249
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4730


michaeljanis
Trying to Understand
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1346
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4249




scenicartisan
Blue Plate Glass
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=54
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5869




sondranarkin
Orange Tide (1-3)
sondranarkin
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1193
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=652
More bright color fields.  A nice contrast to the dark color field I picked above in the first post of this thread.


sondranarkin
Prophesy Machine
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=652
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1191




1 of 3   
grrlyj
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2083
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4431



photokrush
Juniper Flats Shrine
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=553
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5393



grrlyj
I am Because we Are
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2083
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3963


virgilio
Mining Camp
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1404
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3833


Kerri
untitled
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4929
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2026


haikstudio.com
untitled
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1081
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5602



Uncovered Perceptions
mdelamen
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1018
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-701



steevo
Death Angels
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2173
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4188


sthanks
Nude Back
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1802
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3716



antoinette
untitled
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=3
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-30



marydott
Reflections II
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1845
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2402




Kanchan Balse
Intersection
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1851
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2417





SueHolland
Wintry Tree--Composition II
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1883
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2530



SueHolland
"Garden of My Soul"
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1883
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2529




Elena V. Best
Metal & Lace
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1466
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1327


lexi
All of my friends have addictions
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2020
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4004


From The Edge of Urban Time Series
nicolaarts
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1902
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3779


Clay mural 2'x5'
leila
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1459
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5402


Peony No 3
apres-image
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1240
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4571


Free Association
Ellyn Weiss
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1185
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1405



National Panda
Sesow
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=110
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-808



Dream of a Perfect Garage
Plark
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=97
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-126




Attack
Kidkovdrop
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=914
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3951



L' Aubawd
Kidkovdrop
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=914
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3274



Freedom in Orange
Magaly Garza
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1383
http://artdc.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3653

[angelakleis]

These are all very delicate and I like how rrebold pointed out renewal/reawakening.  The intricateness (is that a word?) of them, combined with their colors, which ties them together, in my opinion, all contribute to this renewal them.  It is spring, afterall.  And, life is returning to the world.

I looked through the gallery with this theme in mind and would like to contribute the following, as well.


Cherry Blossoms  by JennRGolden
http://artdc.org/gallery/profile.php?uid=28
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10028/normal_cherryblossomsLG4.jpg


two lips (meet as one) by Serendipity
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1051
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/11051/normal_two_lips_meet_as_one.jpg


I Am A Sacred Woman  by krishayes
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1519
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/11519/normal_IAmASacredWoman.gif


Red Pear with Leaf by Mgirll
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1077
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/11077/normal_Red_Pear_36x48resize~0.jpg


Code Red by brentart
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1469
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/11469/normal_Code-Red.jpg


we have bled enough...time for us to heal...we turn, face the sun... by ramsueno
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1714
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/11714/normal_daisies_line.jpg


Red Rain by dcduck
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2117
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/12117/normal_rain1d.jpg


Jimi 1 by kidkovdrop
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=914
http://artdc.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10914/normal_Jimi3.jpg

I basically searched the gallery for certain tags, including "red", "flowers", "spring", and "birds", and selected from there.